January 19, 2012

• Patchwork Blog

  G’morning.  It snowed again.  I’m glad… it’s convinced me to stay home.  It also covered up the remains of the blood on the deck that I didn’t get scraped out of the old iced snow.  Yes, yes, I’m getting there…

  Another day, another blog.  Yesterday I read all the way through another person’s blog archive.  This time it was… well, I think she was a universalist.  She called herself a ‘liberal christian’.  She did some things that… I would consider very, very bad parenting, but luckily my opinion doesn’t matter in her life, so it doesn’t matter.  ((shrugs))  I’m not like the people who come here and hate on me.  If I read something I don’t agree with, I don’t go berate the person for their ideas/opinions.  Because it’s not my life, over there.  So I read and take the good and let them be the person they choose to be.  And she was a very interesting person… loved to read.  Suggested some wonderful resources for Shakespeare and History.  Some easy reader books for boys, which I’m ALWAYS open to.  Today?  I’m going to read thru another whole blog.  This one a family of six un-schoolers.  Should be interesting, anyhow!

  Library Day!  Today I had designated as library day.  Because I have some things to return, and a WHOLE list of things to pick up (and a few on hold).  But it snowed quite nicely, and that always seems to cozy me in.  If it’s clear, I start to itch to go places, but if it snows, I hunker down with warm beverages and do crafts, projects, read, and stay home.  Haven’t left the house since Monday night’s Sing Thing (where I locked my keys in the car… I have adventures whether I want them or not!).  But I really like hunkering down in.  Of course we go out to tend critters, but…

  Hay, Hay, Hay!  ((Sorry, I couldn’t resist!))  Speaking of critters, we’re out of hay.  So that means a trip to Brian’s grandpa’s tonight.  And it’s that time of the quarter for us to go bearing gifts to their house, anyhow, so I’ll pack those in with them when they go.  I might even tag along – I’d like to hit the dollar store for plastic storage drawers, and the library there has two mythology books I need, and maybe I can talk Brian into going to the new thrift store with me – last time I quick bopped in there, I saw they had a HUGE shelf of books, DVDs, and VHS movies.  It’d be fun to go and browse (and easier with both of us supervising the kidlets).  So that might get us out of the house… we’ll see.

  Boom Boom Pow!  They’ve been saying on SpaceWeather for the past few days that a CME directed at Venus was going to give us a ‘glancing blow’ on the 19th.  Holy glancing blow, Batman!  Have you looked at the IRIS meter this morning?  6.1, 6.2, 6.6, 6.1… yah, I’d say it packed a little blow!  Yeesh!  And of course there’s a big ol’ coronal hole coming around our direction, and it’s been spewing an M-class CME per day for the past week, so… fun times!

  Boom Pow II.  In other news, while I was making lunch yesterday something went Boom-Pow! against the slider door.  It was a downy woodpecker.  He’s been loopy for a few weeks, now… had a fascination with the deck.  He was pecking at the railing last Friday, and has tapped on the glass a few times… just too interested in coming inside, I guess.  But yesterday he took it upon himself to drive-ram the slider door.  He fell on the top landing and lay there, bleeding from the beak and gasping, until (blessedly 30 seconds later) it breathed it’s last.  My kids – in their morbid curiosity – watched the entire death scene.  It… was very unkewl.  We had an extremely sober lunch (after I got a shovel and cleared him off… I really wish I knew something about taxidermy, because that was a beautiful bird!).  So I had to get their minds off the grisly and unpleasant…

  Harry Potter’s Play.  Someone on FB yesterday linked me to Daniel Radcliffe singing the entire Periodic Table of Elements… and my kids were all, “Harry Potter can SING?!”  I assured them he was on stage in London, right now, doing just that.  He sings AND dances.  Well, of course they wanted to know if there were any YouTubes of that! So I looked, and there is!  How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying done for the Tony’s can be watched.  They were delighted.  And of course I’m not about to foster homosexuality in my boys, but I want them wide open to dancing, singing, and the arts… so it was the kind of lesson I teach – men are strong and just as talented as women, and can do a great job, can’t they?  So that took our mind off the shocking demise of poor Downy.  Today I’m trying to watch Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway.  We’ll see how that loads.  ((wink!))

  In Conclusion.  So there’s… yeah.  Stuff is going on.  I never end up where I think I’m going, but it’s okay, because I get there in the mix… there’s just additional shturff.  And I have a TON of homeschool stuff to post, but I want to stagger it with non-school-ish crap, so that I don’t drive peeps crazy.  Cuz I do that, sometimes.  But that’s where we are!

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